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This Is News

Neural Viz · 2025-05-11 · ai-made · 629,580 views

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Made by AI

Model: Runway Act-One, Sora, Kling · Series: Landmark AI video (2023-2025)

Evidence: Description lists 'Made with: Runway Act One, Sora, Kling' and 'Written, directed, edited, and performed by me'.

Human role: Josh Wallace Kerrigan writes, directs, edits and performs all characters (Act-One maps his performance onto AI characters).

Pipeline: Human performance → Runway Act-One → Sora/Kling shots → edit

Lore: monoverse

What's in the video

Description written by Gemini, which watched and listened to the whole video.

Summary
"This Is News" is an AI-generated satirical sketch by Neural Viz presented in the style of a vintage 1980s/1990s local television news broadcast. Anchored by "Danley," the broadcast cycles through absurd, catastrophic reports and cutaways to correspondents whose names and appearances spoof prominent celebrities.

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Assessment
This is a purely comedic, satirical creative piece rather than a product demonstration or real news broadcast. The video uses AI voice synthesis, image generation, and lip-sync animation composited inside retro broadcast graphics and CRT/VHS filters.

Lyrics & themes
The sketch parodies sensationalist local TV news culture and existential dread through deadpan, escalating surrealism:

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Visual style & craft
The piece emulates an authentic 4:3 standard-definition videotape broadcast, complete with chromatic aberration, VHS tracking jitter, scanlines, and period-accurate serif typography. The talking heads are generated via AI portrait generation combined with neural facial animation/lip-syncing software to fit synthesized voices, then edited into multi-box broadcast layouts and interstitials by a human editor.

Described by gemini-3.8-flash on 2026-09-29 from the video's audio and frames.